the Form of Beauty
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The Form of Beauty is Plato’s eternal, unchanging, and perfect archetype of beauty itself, which all beautiful things imperfectly imitate and which the soul ultimately seeks to contemplate.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Form of Beauty | 56 | 1 |
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic Form
→
abstract object → metaphysical entity → object of contemplation → universal → |
| cannotBeKnownBy | senses → |
| contemplationLeadsTo |
purification of the soul
→
spiritual fulfillment → |
| describedBy | Plato → |
| discussedIn |
Phaedrus
→
Republic → Συμπόσιον →
surface form:
Symposium
|
| distinguishedFrom |
opinions about beauty
→
particular beautiful things → |
| existsIn | intelligible realm → |
| grounds | objective standards of beauty → |
| hasProperty |
eternal
→
intelligible → necessary → non-sensible → objective → perfect → self-identical → simple → the same in all times and places → transcendent → uncaused → unchanging → unique → |
| isArchetypeOf |
all beautiful things
→
beauty → |
| isCauseOf |
beauty in sensible things
→
the beauty of particular beautiful objects → |
| isGoalOf |
the lover of wisdom
→
the philosophical lover of beauty → |
| isImitatedBy |
beautiful bodies
→
beautiful kinds of knowledge → beautiful laws and institutions → beautiful sensible things → beautiful souls → |
| isInferiorTo |
the Good (Form of the Good)
→
surface form:
Form of the Good
|
| isObjectOf |
dialectical ascent
→
erotic ascent in the Symposium → philosophical contemplation → |
| isRelatedTo |
the Good (Form of the Good)
→
surface form:
Form of the Good
|
| isSimilarTo | other Platonic Forms → |
| isSoughtBy |
erotic soul in Platonic love
→
philosophical soul → |
| knownBy |
intellect
→
rational soul → |
| partOf |
Renaissance Platonism
→
surface form:
Platonic aesthetics
Platonic metaphysics → Platonism →
surface form:
Platonic theory of Forms
|
| provides | criterion for judging beauty → |
| transcends |
space
→
time → |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Form of Beauty